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I’ve often thought, when you see on TV a ton of Koreans down the front at Spurs, or groups of Asian fans at places like Anfield and Old Trafford - usually visible in the good seats down the front too - they must be football tourists who got seats through similar schemes. I know in the USA, with NFL season tickets being expensive, fans put them up for resale at a certain fixture, even if they could attend. Folk like me, NFL football tourists, away fans, and those who either can’t afford, or can’t get full STs, buy them. The ST holder will then recoup a fairly large amount for one game, helping offset the cost of their ST. A similar scheme could work here, but in reality, the amount of games where it would actually be of massive benefit at the SMiSA is very limited. Benefit to home fans or lapsed SMFC fans that is. Most games don’t sell out. Goes without saying, there would be a danger of resale ST seats going to uglies fans in any possible upcoming post-split important title game for them. Again though, only a ‘problem’ recently, as we haven’t been Top 6 regulars* *Until now. Box Office Buds.

This is how I’ve got good tickets for NFL games in America, at games where demand was high too, attractive fixtures. NFL fan ticket exchange, or something it’s called.

IF it happens, goes without saying a draw in Wales or Norn Iron would be cheap as chips compared to some far flung corner of Europe, nearer Asia than Ayrshire. However, there’s zero chance of drawing a team from a place seven time zones behind us that resembles a war zone, as Morton haven’t qualified for Europe. Boom! Boom!

Don’t particularly care how Top 6 was eventually rubber stamped - we lose but St J and ‘Well do us a huge favour, the fact remains we have secured Top 6 football before a tough fixture against Celtic. Does it win us a Top 6 trophy? Nope, but it secures at worst 6th place prize money, amongst other things. Ask CK how his hospitality bookings will look for remaining home games, and what will our visiting / home fan numbers be for whoever we do get, as opposed to Livvy, Ross C or St Johnstone. At the start of every season, it’s not unreasonable to think the Top 6 may well contain the Glasgow uglies, the Auld Reekie teams, and (based on budget, expectations, famousness and being a ‘big club’ - Aberdeen. Motherwell and Killie are no mugs, nor are Dundee. To see off Motherwell, Hibs, and Aberdeen, is worthy of a small dram being raised, but not on an open top bus. Just in the comfort of your own living room. Do we want Europe, if it means a trip to Diddyville in Wales, or some far flung corner of Azerbaijan? Damn right we should. The alternative is to hope we finish 6th and don’t make it? Nah, not for me. Bring it on. I want to see the UEFA flag flying in the corner of the ground, and Gianni Infantino flying in again to watch his favourite team in Europe. Feels like we have spunked away at least a dozen points due to all sorts of shite performances, but fcuk it, time for that dram. I’ll make it a double if this season sees St Mirren in Europe and Ferranti Thistle relegated. Cheers!

Orange Juice - Rip It Up (and start again).

Motherwell player safety concern tweet - 1.20. I saw it and made my post at 1.36.

Hopefully victorious. Same as whoever are playing Hibs.

It’s not difficult. Motherwell are concerned about player safety. Can’t remember them refusing to play at their own gaff’ when it was the cunto surface of Scottish fitba’. Obviously, you dinnae’ have to agree with the point, but is isn’t a hard one to grasp. Surely Motherwell will survive these ninety minutes intact?

Point still stands. Fir Park was a tattie field, severely rutted and had more sand on it than Ayr beach. Motherwell had to play on it every second week, they only have to get through one game on the less-than-stellar Dens surface. Hopefully they’ll manage it without serious injury befalling any of their players.

Did Motherwell suffer many career ending injuries in home games when it was Fir Park that was an absolute disgrace a few seasons back? Fir Park is braw’ these days, but it closely resembled the current Dens Park surface, if not worse.

Fcuk me, the wind is stronger than we thought.

Yup, literally just started getting a bit windy up the minches (ooh err missus, titter ye not) in Cumbernauld. Literally went from nothing to a stiff breeze in the time it takes me to post shite on P&B.

Was pointed in the direction of a band called The Vindys. Just listened to both of their albums, ‘Bugs’ and ‘Keep Going’. Great stuff - sounds like the band Gossip, fronted by Beth Ditto, meets Amy Winehouse & a full blown rock band up a dark alleyway.

I know how this plays out. Weather forecasters warn us of impending doom. There’s not even a crisp poke blowing past my window…. I get ready, head out, get to Hillington and Storm Kathleen says ‘the fcuker has made it over the Kingston Bridge… time to let rip…’ Nothing surer.

On her way then. Still not as much as a gentle breeze in sunny Cumbernauld.

What’s the weather where you are at present folks? 11am in Cumbernauld and hardly a leaf moving on the trees. Currently calm as a calm thing that’s calm. This storm Kathleen keeping her powder dry for a bit longer?

Pretty sure there have been some tragic bouncy castle incidents in the past. Shame the initiative had to be cancelled, but clearly the right thing to do. I know all St Mirren fans want to go to Europe, but we don’t want to do it by kids ending up in Norway this Saturday afternoon.

The 2024/25 Scottish Premiership title race. Sellik, Sevco, Hearts most likely…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68738072

Fortunately, and the most un-St Mirreny thing I’ve ever witnessed, we actually exorcised the 2010 demons by actually winning the thing a mere three years later, and taking an ugly sister scalp in the semi final. I anticipated being haunted by the 2010 final forever. I can genuinely say that 2013 banished the haunting forever - being in a 3-2 thrilling ugly slayng semi final, and a genuinely exciting and thrilling 3-2 final itself. Hammarby was a feckin nightmare too, but my attitude is that for all it was indeed a nightmare, all it definitely did was to do us out of another European tie. The 2010 capitulation did us out of fcuking over the Deadco in a major cup final. The sight of, and subsequent re-living on DVD of the St Mirren captain raising the cup as the dregs of the Deadco hordes slinked out of Hampden was snatched away, by our own hand. That was the worst. Worse than Hammarby. Still, we won it in 2013 and those kunts died.

I sometimes wonder if any Hearts fans actually think that those of us who were in Love Street that day were happy to see an ugly sister trounce us and celebrate an unlikely title win on our own patch. When news from Dundee filtered through on radios about Albert Kidd, do Jambos really think we were cheering and joining in with an Old Firm party on our pitch? I was sick. Scunnered. Subsequent ‘St Liedown’ shite has me not giving a fcuk about Hearts ‘86, but I didn’t feel that way at the time. Shame Hearts shit the bed, just as they did when going 1-0 up at our place and contriving to lose 6-2. Oooft, that goal difference, eh?

Pretty sure the primary reason Hearts fans will want their team to win is that, erm, they want their team to win because they always want the team they support to win. For some of a certain vintage, there may be a remnant of not liking us for 1986, but mostly, they’ll just want Hearts to win. Maybe the exception will be fat fcukers flashing Nazi salutes who look old enough to know better. Maybe their primary reason for wanting Hearts to beat St Mirren is different from the majority of sane Jambos.

Financial Fair Play in Scotland would see Everton & Forest Diddy Team 1 & Diddy Team 2 docked 10 points each, while at the top of the table, the more creative lawyers employed by Manchester City & Chelsea Bigot Team 1 & Bigot Team 2, would massage the figures to make them disappear into the same drawer that says ‘Tavernier, penalty’ on the front of it. Maybe a new drawer marked ‘nothing to see here, carry on’ would be created.

Hanging fire until I see where St Mirren are going in Europe next season* *Have booked a transatlantic cruise from Barcelona to Fort Lauderdale, as I don’t fancy Wales, or staying at home.

Broncos unveiling their first uniform re-design since 1997 on April 22. Supposedly incorporates the ‘5280’ feet above sea level number, and a pattern within the fabric that mimics the outline of the Rocky Mountains. I’ll bet you a pound to a penny they also come up with a newly designed wanky typeface that even the Green Brigade wouldn’t use on their banners. We’ll end up with something that resembles a bright orange can of Coors Light, accompanied with a typeface that makes the Buccaneers old Casio calculator jersey numbers look classy. Then we’ll get rogered by Reid, Mahomes, Kelce & Swiftie while wearing gimmicky uniforms that will be re-designed in another three years…. Or maybe they’ll do something good… like the Buccaneers did with their re-design a few years back. Maybe.